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(WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday filed a brand new indictment towards Donald Trump over his efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election that retains the identical legal expenses however narrows the allegations towards him following a Supreme Court opinion conferring broad immunity on former presidents.
The new indictment removes a piece of the indictment that handled Trump’s interactions with the Justice Department, an space of conduct for which the Supreme Court in a 6-3 opinion final month mentioned Trump was entitled to immunity from prosecution.
The up to date legal case not lists as a co-conspirator Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department official who championed Trump’s false claims of election fraud. Trump’s co-conspirators weren’t named in both indictment, however they’ve been recognized by means of public information and different means.
The particular counsel’s workplace mentioned the up to date indictment, filed in federal court docket in Washington, was issued by a grand jury that had not beforehand heard proof within the case.
The indictment retained the allegations that Trump tried to strain then-Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify the electoral vote rely. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court docket that the interactions between Trump and Pence amounted to official conduct for which “Trump is a minimum of presumptively immune from prosecution.”
The query, Roberts wrote, is whether or not the federal government can rebut “that presumption of immunity.”
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Associated Press author Mark Sherman in Washington contributed to this report.
